Who, may I ask, is your favorite director? I would say that my favorite is Stanley Kubrick, director/writer of Dr. Stranglove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon,
A Clockwork Orange, Spartacus, and others. He's probably the most copied and most influential director in movie history, not to mention the most brilliant.

What do you think?

Duke

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."

--Mark Twain

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

My favorite director is by far Stanley Kubrick, he is just so versatile and I haven't disliked a single one of his films that I've seen (I've yet to see The Killing, Killer's Kiss, and Fear and Desire).. I also love Bergmen, Lynch, Lumet, Scorsese, & Spielberg.

[...] the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.-Darwin

Guy Ritchie does it for me, if you like your gangster films to be nasty, violent and still very funny in places. He got the best out of Brad Pitt who was mesmeric as an Irish Gypsy in Snatch, probably his finest acting role.

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

Here's a name that's impressed me twice in the last few years. Brad Bird. Writer/Director for The Incredibles and Ratatoille. Both of those movies were hiarious, multilayered, dealt with underlying issues of fairly complex morality, looked awesome, and did all of this very well hidden in the guise of kid's movies. Personally, I think the guy is very talented.

I believe it's time for mankind to set aside the crutch of religion and embrace morality born of reason and truth. Those crutches have long since proven treacherous when the ground gets slippery.